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Please, explain why Angela Davis is wrong. I dare you.
Edit: do any of the people downvoting me even know who she is or seen her work?
Evidence of basic capitalism has existed in areas that only had a single race or where the race of owners/customers were the same.
Can you explain why the economic framework of capitalism NEEDS racism to work?
Racism needs capitalism, not the other way around. Racism is an aspect of the class war, intended to drive apart those of the working class.
Was the Soviet Union a capitalist country? Because they have an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to their antisemitism.
Yeah, they were state capitalist.
Are you saying that there has never been a racist culture that wasn't capitalist? Or are you claiming that capitalism anywhere in the world creates racism everywhere?
Both are pretty bold claims that would need evidence to support them. But like you said, prove it, I dare you.
Capitalism is a fairly recent invention. Racism is as old as humanity and in no way depends on capitalism to exist
That's not true, on either account. Race was first documented in 1619. Capitalism became a mode of production at approximately the same time.
Oh so racism was invented by Europeans in 1619? Interesting. This is not just deluded but very Eurocentric as well.
Because racism doesn't coincide with an economic or government ideology. If that were the case, then AOC, Kamala Harris, or Ihlan Omar (and more) wouldn't hold office. The idea that Angela Davis expressed is now outdated
It's not outdated, because racism still exists. It's changed, and can't be analyzed through a singular intersection.
Change means the prior is outdated,
You are correct
Do you know anything about her work? Her analysis is still accurate. Most intersectional class based analyses will be true regardless of function. Women of color in politics doesn't disprove wealth based systemic inequality.
I didn't give those examples because they are women. That's a completely different topic. And poverty doesn't care what color your skin is. That is my point.
And Angela Davis is a far-left activist that has worked with the USA communist party and The Black Panthers. She was a philosophy professor and she is very well educated. Also, somehow firearms that she purchased fell into the arms of a 17 year old so he could take hostages at his brother's trial. Ultimately the judge, the brothers, and another defendent were killed during a shootout with police.
You can't have capitalism without a class of wage slaves. It's arbitrary that America uses race to differentiate. It could've been brown haired people, or women, instead.
I haven't read her work, so I can't comment on the second part. I'm curious if you know what her response to the above would be?